I installed everything correctly and was using it and it was working perfectly had about 43 songs loaded, then i downloaded some more songs and ran the library builder to load the new songs and it only loaded a total of 13 of my 50 files. I unistalled songbook and reinstalled and still only generated 13 files.... can some one please help me figure out what ive done wrong?

i got the plugin running and everything is great, except i can't build the library. I've tried changing the .hta to .html, which did open some script/webpage on safari that had a "generate library" button in it - but when i click it, nothing happens. it just won't build the library no matter how many times i click on it, or if i run LOTRo before/after clicking.

And yet another bugfix to WANSongBookFiller: Until version 1.3, you couldn't browse through folders where no ABC files were located at all. From version 1.4 on, all "in-between" folders down to a sub-sub-sub...folder are now included so that you can browse to a song called "sub1/sub2/sub3/sub4/mysong.abc" even if sub1/2/3 are completely empty. You can download v1.4 as usual from http://lotro.hanft.de/wansongbookfiller/

as you may have noticed there were some daylight saving time issues with my "WAN Songbook Filler" (everything was re-read at the start and the end of daylight saving time). Version 1.2 should have avoided this by using UTC time zone generally, but it doesn't seem to be that easy... Linux servers store file modification time together with time zones, WebDAV servers deliver GMT or local time (together with time zone information or not), WebDAV clients (and Windows itself) add or subtract their local time zone to or from the delivered time... and all this even depends on DST active (or not) by the time of uploading and/or downloading! There are just too many pieces of software involved in this process so that you can get unpredictable results anyway.

So I gave up finding a solution for managing the correct time zone by all means, but installed a checkbox in the program which treats an exact 1-hour offset as "same time". Granted, this may lead to miss a changed file if it was modified exactly one hour (to the second!) after the last write, but I think this won't happen very often – and if you're suspicious about it, just un-check the new "Ignore" checkbox.

(If you just use a local drive instead of a WebDAV server, the impact of re-reading everything might not be annoying twice a year anyway.)

PS: There's still that "European Bug" that music instrument slots are stored as "[1,000000] = 0,000000" in the SongbookSettings.plugindata file when leaving the game. In order to reload Songbook, you have to take Notepad and "search and replace" all ",0000" by ".0000"...

Having just got a Mac, this is the only Lotro related thing I can't do (populate and maintain Songbook). What's needed is the .hta or standalone .exe file to be made available in Java. How difficult this might be, I have no idea.

Yes, it's a bit of a shame. The script itself is fairly easy to port to Java I believe. Problem is how the directories and such resources are handled in a Mac environment of Lotro. And unfortunately I cannot test those out myself for the moment.

Having just got a Mac, this is the only Lotro related thing I can't do (populate and maintain Songbook). What's needed is the .hta or standalone .exe file to be made available in Java. How difficult this might be, I have no idea.

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Ah OSX again. Unfortunately I do not have a Mac to make this happen. You could try running the .exe version or this tool under Wine. Obviously the .hta will not work. There was also a user working on a AppleScript version here in LotroI, but I don't think he ever released it.

Ok looks like there's an error in the settings file. You could try to delete SongbookSettings.plugindata file that is mentioned in the error message. There's no crucial information there, just plugin window position and such. But delete the file while the plugin is not running (or even game). Then try again starting the plugin.

Since the file is account-specific, it may work on the other character on the other account.

-Chiran

Yes, that did it. Songbook is working perfectly fine again. Thank you, sir!

This is what comes in the chat when I try loading it. I also use the lyrical plugin and the hugebag plugin, and they work just fine.

Ok looks like there's an error in the settings file. You could try to delete SongbookSettings.plugindata file that is mentioned in the error message. There's no crucial information there, just plugin window position and such. But delete the file while the plugin is not running (or even game). Then try again starting the plugin.

Since the file is account-specific, it may work on the other character on the other account.

The plugin is really great, and worked great until a week ago, when it stopped working for my second account. It still works perfectly for my first account though. I tried re-installing it, without success. Any idea what could be wrong?

Does it give any kind of error message on the chat? Do other plugins work?

The plugin is really great, and worked great until a week ago, when it stopped working for my second account. It still works perfectly for my first account though. I tried re-installing it, without success. Any idea what could be wrong?

Ah OSX again. Unfortunately I do not have a Mac to make this happen. You could try running the .exe version or this tool under Wine. Obviously the .hta will not work. There was also a user working on a AppleScript version here in LotroI, but I don't think he ever released it.

I can only speak for myself in that question.
The plugin is Master Chirans awesome work. I just made some slight modifications to fit my needs in the plugin code.
Aftre all, LUA and me are not best friend, sotospeak...

Since I do not have done any programming on the Mac OS so far,
a Mac version will not happen in the near future.
(which means at least not in the next few weeks )
However, I am eager to try something on Mac OS, but it will take some time.

Maybe You can bring in a bit detail what exactly is the issue on the Mac.
The plugin is done in LUA which is running within Lotro so that should work.
I guess the problem is the creation of the database file, Macs are a bit nervous in terms of accessing the filesystem. If you can toss this job to a native Mac program it should work.

cheers
Fizzle of Belegaer

Will there be a modification so this works smoothly on the Mac OS? I'd love to use the plug-in but it has too many issues and work-a-rounds to work on the Mac. Thanks for the consideration and the handwork you put into the development of this plug-in!!